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The Goal of Love

A seven-card target for anyone tangled in their own wanting. The centre holds the real goal; the ring around it shows what helps, what deflects and what quietly replaces it.

Pick this target when you are tangled in your own wanting, not a relationship with a specific person.

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How to read it

Open the centre last, though you read it first: the six surrounding cards either guard the goal or hide it. Compare card one with card two; a gap between them means you have been walking for years toward something you never wanted. Cards three and seven are your strength and your nearest step, read together as bow and arrow. Cards four and six explain the misses: one knocks the aim off from outside, the other swaps the target from within. Card five names the price. If the price contradicts the centre, the goal still belongs to someone else.

Positions

  1. Core of the goal

    What you truly want from love, underneath every word you tell yourself and other people.

  2. The declared goal

    The goal you name aloud to friends and to yourself when you explain your search.

  3. What carries you

    The quality, circumstance or person that genuinely moves you closer to what you want.

  4. What throws the aim

    The outside interference or habit that makes you miss the same mark again and again.

  5. The price

    What this goal will cost you: time, freedom, other ties, or your familiar safety.

  6. The false goal

    The convenient substitute you settle for whenever the real goal looks out of reach.

  7. The first shot

    The nearest concrete action that will move you toward the goal within this week.

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